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In my work as a sexual assault crisis counselor & in covering the #MeToo movement as a journalist, victims say the same thing over and over again.
Don’t bother going to the police. Don’t include that detail in your story. No one will believe it happened.
No one will believe me.
Don’t bother going to the police. Don’t include that detail in your story. No one will believe it happened.
No one will believe me.
Victims have learned they have to be litigators & present only the things they can prove. Only the parts of their story the public will find palatable.
They inspect every angle. Turn their own assaults inside out, looking for the angle the police will take to undermine them.
They inspect every angle. Turn their own assaults inside out, looking for the angle the police will take to undermine them.
Why don’t victims report? They do. Over and over and over.
To teachers. Friends. Parents. They reach out.
And every person who responds with incredulity drives a nail into the coffin of silence that eventually buries survivors.
Why don’t they come forward sooner?
You know why
To teachers. Friends. Parents. They reach out.
And every person who responds with incredulity drives a nail into the coffin of silence that eventually buries survivors.
Why don’t they come forward sooner?
You know why
